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Dark Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
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Phantasm
1979 · Sci-Fi
Babylon XX
1979 · Drama
The Brood
1979 · Sci-Fi
Jaani Dushman
1979 · Mystery
Over the Edge
1979 · Drama
Zulu Dawn
1979 · Drama
The Third Generation
1979 · Comedy
Winter Kills
1979 · Drama
Killer Nun
1979 · Horror
Jubilee
1979 · Drama
Last Embrace
1979 · Thriller
The Evictors
1979 · Horror
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
1979 · Drama
Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
1979 · Comedy
The Visitor
1979 · Horror
Tourist Trap
1979 · Horror
Savage Weekend
1979 · Thriller
Real Life
1979 · Comedy
Don’t Go Near the Park
1979 · Horror
Dominique
1979 · Mystery
A Dangerous Toy
1979 · Crime
The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979 · Drama
Maula Jatt
1979 · Drama
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
1979 · Drama
Screams of a Winter Night
1979 · Horror
The Bermuda Triangle
1979 · Thriller
Perversion
1979 · Horror
Neeya?
1979 · Horror
Hardcore
1979 · Drama
Crippled Avengers
1978 · Action
King of the Gypsies
1978 · Drama
The Deer Hunter
1978 · Drama
My Life’s on the Line
1978 · Action
The House of the Dead
1978 · Action
I Spit on Your Grave
1978 · Thriller
Papaya: Love Goddess of the Cannibals
1978 · Horror
The Kirlian Witness
1978 · Crime
Eeta
1978 · Romance
Faces of Death
1978 · Documentary
Magic
1978 · Drama
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